Month: January 2014

Now that we have the official results, let’s take a look at how we did! All models are wrong, some are useful. Firstly, my model picked 85 songs as being in the top 100, so we missed 15. So did the Warmest 100 list. We got 4 exactly right, as… Read More

I hooked up my MooresCloud Holiday to the stereo today so that I could sync up the light display with TripleJ’s Hottest 100 countdown. The Hottest 100 is a bit of a tradition for me; I’ve listened to it every year since 1993, and I have a few other personal… Read More

This is my last revised list for the Hottest 100. This list is generated using a more sophisticated method (yet again) after a discussion over Twitter I had with @chrisjrn about the kinds of bias there might be in the sample. I refined the list with three techniques. Firstly, I… Read More

I’ve done another couple of data matching runs, and I think I might have a more accurate one than the previous list. There are a couple of significant differences, which I think is due to the way the partial matching Nilsimsa hash works. Basically I’ve tuned the Nilsimsa hash cutoff… Read More

I’ve replicated the methods used by the Warmest 100 crew to check their results. I managed to collect 15,588 total votes compared with their 17,800, so my list will be slightly less accurate, thought I’ve used a slightly more complex matching technique than what @flossinspace did, so that might help… Read More

I touched on my mobile rig in my post on Daily Tools, so today, let’s dig into my mobile setup in a little more detail. My workhorse is my laptop, a Dell Latitude E5530 with SSD. SSD is blazingly fast and complements the Intel i7 chip in it nicely, as… Read More

These are the tools I use on a daily basis. I’ve left out all the specialist tools I use for highly specific tasks, as those aren’t things I do every single day, but I’ll use all of these for at least half and hour every day. Hardware My core mobile… Read More

At the core of my tech toolchest is my choice of operating system: Linux. I’ve used Linux as my primary desktop since I built one on a disused PC at my job at Vodafone in 1996, running Slackware. I first installed it on a laptop in the second half of… Read More

January is a great time to get some work done on all those little things that are neglected the rest of the year as external pressures take priority. Many people are still on holiday, or are transitioning from relaxation to work, so there aren’t as many meetings, and the first… Read More

Inspired by a question from @grantorchard over the summer, I’ve added reading list page to the site. There’s a lot of noise on the internet, so as part of my continuing mission to help guide people towards the signal, this list only contains things I’ve personally read and think are… Read More